Hypertext Webster Gateway: "supplementary"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Supplemental \Sup`ple*men"tal\, Supplementary
\Sup`ple*men"ta*ry\, a. [Cf. F. suppl['e]mentaire.]
Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving
as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary
sheet or volume.

{Supplemental air} (Physiol.), the air which in addition to
the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary
expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be
expelled; reserve air.

{Supplemental bill} (Equity), a bill filed in aid of an
original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to
set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment.
--Burrill. --Daniel.

{Supplementary chords} (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola,
any two chords drawn through the extremities of a
diameter, and intersecting on the curve.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

supplementary
adj 1: added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced
supplementary volumes"; "additional reading" [syn: {supplemental},
{additional}]
2: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the
main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: {auxiliary},
{subsidiary}, {supplemental}]


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